[Steve_Seattle]

You know what was probably the main thing that drove me out of the church? Being scolded by the church in my thirties for believing things that the church taught me when I was growing up, while claiming that “church teaching has never changed.” The latest example - at the local church level - is the turnabout on homosexuality. I eventually said, “Screw that crap.”

[SuziQ]

What turnabout on homosexuality do you mean? The Church still teaches that homosexual inclination is a disordered state, and that homosexual activity is sinful. It’s a matter of hate the sin, love the sinner. How is that different from what she has ever taught?

[ClaytonP]

You know what was probably the main thing that drove me out of the church? Being scolded by the church in my thirties for believing things that the church taught me when I was growing up, while claiming that “church teaching has never changed.”

I've always wondered how the RCC could go from a church that burned people at the stake over minor doctrinal disagreements to the condition it is in today; yet Catholics will state with a straight face that the teachings have never changed.